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The fighter who retires will keep the belt and the committee will generally schedule a fight between the next two contenders to recognize the new champion. A new belt will be made for the new champion.
Lennox Lewis is the most recent retired champ.
It terms of belts a new belt is made every time a new champion is crowned. The ex-champion gets to keep his ...

After some research, I believe that Wrestling and MMA copied boxing's practice of a championship belt.
Let's start with MMA. When UFC began it followed the accepted practice of awarding championship belts, as WWE and WBO do. UFC simply followed along with it's contemporaries.
The first belt awarded to a fighter was a boxer given in 1810, according to this ...

Boxing
"Amateur" boxers cannot fight above (or below) their weight class, as stated by the Amateur International Boxing Association (the seemingly most well-regarded amateur ruling body). The lower bound of a weight class is also a requirement to fight at that weight. Oddly enough, this is also the case for the Summer Olympics.
Source: AIBA, Technical &...

These women are called "Ring Girls" and have been part of the boxing folklore since 1965. The initial intent was to give the feeling of a show more than just a combat.
This article from livestrong.com says:
Ring Girl Duties
When it comes right down to it, the responsibilities of the ring girl aren't vast or complicated. Usually, the attractive model ...

While I can’t provide the specific name to the device you show, I can tell you that it has many uses, one of which is improving hand to eye coordination. A company called Dynavision makes a very similar product called D2(Dynavsion Dynamic Motor) that is used in sports training and rehabilitation.
Listed benefits of it are:
Incorporates gross motor ...

Good question.
If knockout does not decide who wins a boxing match, then how do judges come to a "decision" of who wins?
I'll try to elaborate on the scoring criteria that you posted.
Judges are encouraged to score rounds 10-9 in favour of the boxer who landed the most clean punches in the round. Because of this, the judges should be counting the ...

I do not practice boxing or martial arts, but I am a tennis player, and every coach will say the same about hitting the ball as a martial arts coach will about hitting an opponent - the power should come from your core and lower body, rather than your arm/shoulder. The idea is to use large muscle groups (quads, hamstrings, glutes, core) to create movement. ...

I'd say the perfect is to be right below the Upper limit for a certain weight category. Thus all your opponents will weight less so you can use your weight for the advantages like taking hits/giving k.o.'s and especially clinching.
For every boxer it is important to keep balance between muscle weight and speed. Usually if you gain a lot of weight (muscle ...

This has happened in MMA, in the infamously known as "Detroit Dance", a match between Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock at UFC 9.
In the end, judges scored the match for Dan Severn and nothing much happened.
This article explaining the reasons is funnier than the match itself.

Punching is both advantageous because it can potentially hurt your opponent and risky at the same time (at the moment, I can think of two reasons for it being risky).
Boxing matches are oftentimes very dependent on stamina (of course, for nearly all sports - but boxers occasionally simply fall from exhaustion rather than a KO) so boxers want to conserve ...

From the official website of the most recent Games (Rio 2016) (emphasis added):
Five judges score both fighters after each round, but scores are not revealed until the end of the bout.
A boxer receives 10 points for winning a round, while the loser gets between six and nine.
Athletes are scored on successfully landed blows, domination, ...

The governing body of Olympic boxing, the AIBA, only recently changed its rule for the 2016 Olympic Games to permit boxers to qualify. To do that, they have to be an otherwise amateur boxer who participates in an AIBA sanctioned professional tournament called the APB. As far as I can tell from the AIBA site, participation in any other pro tournament still ...

There is some debate between Archie Moore and Billy Bird as the record holder for most KOs in a career. Bird landed 138 knockouts in his time, with 22 dealt to him. Moore KO'd 131 with only 7 knockouts dealt to himself. Ultimately it is accepted that Billy Bird holds this record with some unofficial fights also rumored to have taken place during his time.
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The most likely reason is the rights which UFC holds to their fights and all the content and instances which take place in the fight. Most major UFC fights are Pay per view or sold commercially. However, UFC recently contracted with ESPN+ to use their streaming service as a PPV option for fans. I doubt this will influence what highlights are shown, however.
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It's because the majority of watchers of UFC are men. Hence, the UFC uses those girls to get the attention of these men, which leads to a larger viewership and hence ultimately more money for the UFC.
It's the same concept that underlies cheerleaders in other American sports competitions. There's a slight difference in the sense that at least cheerleaders ...

You should refer to the boxing organization rules. For example, this is from the WBO rules:
The Committee shall determine if the Vacancy should be filled by a contest between the two Best Classified Contenders Available, or a box off among the four Best Classified Contenders Available. In either event, the contestants as determined by the Championship ...

This is a personal choice at the end of the day.
Biomechanically a southpaw boxer has the advantage against an orthodox boxer in liver placement and in the fact that their power hand is aligned to it.
The majority of boxers are orthodox so being a southpaw you will see a lot of orthodox boxers while they will not see a lot of southpaws, you will also have ...

There are two ways to approach this question:
What the rules permit for your weight class
What your training instructor recommend
The World Muay Thai Council's rules state in section 3.3:
3.3. The glove sizes for competitions are as follows:
The boxers between the Mini Flyweight division and the Featherweight division must use the gloves of six (...

This is one of the most controversial boxing matches in history.
Some argue that the Alì's punch has not knocked out his opponent, but currently there are no concrete information about it.
On wikipedia there is an dedicated page with many info and many hypothesis on this match (also on the possibility that was fixed).
So, I think it is not possible to ...

That clip is very vague in terms of information regarding the physical state of fighters. I have not watched the fight but as per boxing rules, referee are in the position to decide whether the fighter is fit to continue fighting. Maybe he was getting outclassed terribly. The punch he received was a bad one, and referee can always stop a fight in order to ...